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… house. It was filled with family portraits and china that had come from England as well as her paintings of Nova Scotia. She served … she was walking in Hyde Park with her dog. A few handsome Canadian soldiers walked past, and she coyly unleashed her dog and yelled to the soldiers to catch him. That’s how she met my grandfather. I do not know if …
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… officials had their preferences in terms of immigrants to Canada. High Commissioner to London, Vincent Massey, reported from Occupied … seen as excellent lumber workers and domestics. [2] Since they ranked high on Canada’s list of preferred immigrants, Balts were among the …
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… Introduction: The Arrival of Black Refugees Related to the War of 1812 Nova Scotia has been home to people of African descent for over 300 … the War of 1812, approximately 2,000 escaped slaves arrived in Nova Scotia, having attained freedom in the course of the conflict. An … slaves were brought to the French stronghold at Île Royale in present day Cape Breton, while additional numbers of slaves arrived between …
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… Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript: Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That’s what … days, we simply, I still remember, for eighteen days we didn’t get a chance to cook our Nepalese food. That was the terrible part. That was …
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… They provided us everything, immigration. Our sponsor group from our community from the church were helping us to take us to the different … just ate our Nepalese food. EB: Were you able to find all of the ingredients, or most of the ingredients that you were used to? MKG: Yes. Yeah, everything was there. We …
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… to our dear grandparents, aunt, uncle and little cousin with whom we lived in southern Italy. With us we had all of our belongings in 2 … but we became used to it just like everyone else there. My father had come to Canada 6 years earlier and had a very good and secure job with …
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… Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s … and Hindi. I speak three languages. And I did know Swahili. But, coming here, not keeping in touch with Swahili, I’m not fluent with … make samosa, pakora, laddu, all the sweets, you know. And it was convenience store, Canadian grocery and Indian groceries. So, my dad said, …
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… in Volhynia (which was a province of Poland at the time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors … out our address through the Red Cross; it may have been the other way around but anyhow we started to correspond. In time the decision …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the … of the last that would get out of Hungary before the controls by the Communists were clamped down and they had managed to come to Canada. They, basically, they got the okay. That’s the only way …
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… Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large … to a new county proved to be both exciting and frightening as well as a lot of work. At the time we had six children, all of whom …